As PPCGeek tries to protect it’s users I bring you this important message for Android users. It seems that a company has found over 26 more mal-ware programs in the Android Marketplace. It is suspected of infecting over 100,000 Android users. Lookout Mobile Security made the discovery over the weekend, and believes that the rogue software was likely created by the same persons who created the ‘DroidDream’ malware that was discovered in dozens of Android apps a couple of months back.
The security firm followed tips from legitimate developers who noticed that their apps were being redistributed with modified code. This discovery lead to a new stripped-down version of the original ‘DroidDream” malware, the new name is ‘Droid Dream Light’
Google has been notified and has already resulted in the offending apps being withdrawn from the Market.
According to Lookout, once installed on a user’s device, the user doesn’t even have to open the apps for their device to be at risk; the code can be activated by an external triggering event, such as an incoming voice call, which then prompts the device to send data to a remote server, such as the IMEI number and information about installed programs.
Google now may be forced with using that “app kill switch” to remove it from hundreds of thousands of users devices. But considering the alternative – I would rather have it removed than have it stay on my phone spreading who knows what to where!
The list of infected apps includes:
Magic Photo Studio
- Sexy Girls: Hot Japanese
- Sexy Legs
- HOT Girls 4
- Beauty Breasts
- Sex Sound
- Sex Sound: Japanese
- HOT Girls 1
- HOT Girls 2
- HOT Girls 3
Mango Studio
- Floating Image Free
- System Monitor
- Super StopWatch and Timer
- System Info Manager
E.T. Tean
- Call End Vibrate
BeeGoo
- Quick Photo Grid
- Delete Contacts
- Quick Uninstaller
- Contact Master
- Brightness Settings
- Volume Manager
- Super Photo Enhance
- Super Color Flashlight
- Paint Master
DroidPlus
- Quick Cleaner
- Super App Manager
- Quick SMS Backup
source: neowin.net